Freezing cold fun

We warm blooded southerners have had to adjust this week as we have reached single digits and not climbed out of below freezing for the past few days. I was blessed with a holiday Monday, a cancelled inservice Tuesday, class Wednesday (but church was cancelled), no school today, and I will round out the week with a teacher work day tomorrow.

I tried to warm up the other night with this delicious meal shown below.  Unfortunately, it sealed my fate on what I kind of already knew...I have pregnancy induced heartburn/reflux.  Tomato soup and a balsamic vinaigrette were a no-no.  Seems that meals like this although tasty,  make me sick for hours only to eventually come back up.  Bleh.

So, after talking with the doctor I have figured out some diet modifications, and since I am already trying to figure meal plans out for my pregnancy induced glucose issues anyway, I will just try to stay away from reflux triggers.

Great news is that my carpal tunnel, although not entirely gone, has not been near as bad as it was in December and January.  My theory is that it was worsened by the joint pain/swelling which can be caused by parvovirus and stick around for a while.  Go figure.

Back to the cold...It snowed and stuck in our neck of the woods, and I praised God for helping me get home safely on some slick-ish side roads.  

The inch or so on our driveway, seen below, proved to be an issue for my little Corolla which has awful traction in snow.

After three attempts with spin outs I patiently waited forbmy husband to get home with our 4-wheel drive Explorer.  He was only about 20 minutes behind me.

I took some pictures.

Our road

My sleeping boy, who had stubbornly not taken a nap for his Grammy.

I called my mom.  I Facebooked.  I waited.  Lest you think me lazy for not trekking the less than quarter mile to the house, I didn't think it wise for my 22 week pregnant self to try to carry my over 30 pound sleeping child up a slippery driveway in 20 degree weather.  Last thing I needed to do was fall.

My hero arrived! 

He tried to get my car up the hill and encountered the same issue.  We ended up chaining my car behind the Explorer, and with me in neutral, he drug my little blue useless in snow car up our driveway.  Plan B would have been to leave it in our yard at the bottom of the hill.  But, we made it!

My car got a bit of mud slung on it. Lol

Josh went to work this morning in the Explorer.  We probably got about 2 inches total.  He took a few pics.

Benjamin and I played in the snow once the weather climbed to a whopping 12 degrees.  The sun was melting the snow anyway though.

This was after a healthy breakfast for me, of course.  I had bacon and sharp cheddar with my eggs (which I did fully cook...).

Benjamin did a lot of exploring.  I was impressed he could move as well as he could considering how many layers I had on him.  Lol

He would stop and jump sometimes.

I somehow managed to get him still and looking at the camera long enough for a picture.

He loved walking around in the snow.  I hated that he couldn't stay out longer, but the wind chill and the temps. Sheesh.

I coaxed him into taking a picture with me.  He even smiled. Cutie.

For a moment...stinker.

We enjoyed our day together.  We love a good snow day. ;)

An almost snow

We had a light snow in our neck of the woods today.  Benjamin asked at first if he could go play in the snow.  After he saw outside better he asked if he could go play in the mud.  lol

Playing in the mud is pretty much what he did too.  Since he was so keen on splashing in puddles his time outside was short lived.  I didn't think 30 degree weather and puddle splashing mixed very well.  

Our week at a glance

We had a very busy (last) week taking down Christmas decorations and cleaning the house in preparation for family and friends who came over on Saturday to celebrate January birthdays.  Josh's Mamaw turned 80 this year, and my mom has a birthday coming up on the 16th.  We took some great pictures, but those will have to come at another time.

My all day sickness is decreasing, but unfortunately my carpal tunnel (which plagued me for months of my pregnancy with Benjamin) is returning.  I've been sporting my wrist brace off an on to help it out.

A post is not complete without pictures of my sweet 2 1/2 year old.  

This was taken Sunday at church.

 

Benjamin tried on Papaw's reading glasses at Mamaw's and got a kick out of it.

I attempted to take pictures of my "bump" this evening.  I have yet to figure out the proper way to take a pregnancy shot.  The first one is me...errrr...relaxed.  The second one is a n attempt to "suck it in."  lol.  I'm 17 weeks today.

 My sweet boy humored me with a cuddle selfie

Notable achievements of Benjamin this week are that I am now being called Mommy instead of Mama.  I'm not sure what brought that change.  He started back to Kindermusick this week--which he still loves.  We have opted not to send him to Soccer Shots this semester since he does not seem to keen on it at the moment.  

Sorry it's a bit scattered.  It's past my bedtime. ;)

Da Bubbles!

It's neat, and kind of funny, to go back and look at incomplete posts on my blog that have just been sitting in drafts for a while.  Here is one from back in June of Benjamin playing with our (at the time) relatively new Bubble blower.  

I'm pretty sure I was modeling a new haircut at the time.  My hair was cooperating much more then in the summer months versus our cold dry winter months right now.

Be still my beating heart...

I just can't get enough of my child's cuteness.  I felt blessed to get some cute pictures of him playing outside on Tuesday.  Believe it or not, he really doesn't smile all the time.

Count me as feeling even more blessed to get even more cute pictures while we played outside tonight!

I love this boy so much. :)